What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and its dense nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Despite its ...

Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain its unique nitrogen-rich ...

Scientists found Titan’s orbit is shifting faster than expected due to tidal dissipation. A recent cosmic event likely ...

The thickness of the methane clathrate crust, when viewed in the light of the topography of Titan, means that the Saturnian ...

Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and the only ... complex organic materials are heated up in Titan's rocky interior, releasing nitrogen as well as carbon gases like methane.

Scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the energy lost as it orbits the ringed planet with its massive gravitational force. Understanding tidal dissipation ...

Titan - Saturn's moon with hydrocarbon lakes under a dense atmosphere First discovered in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is the largest of the 82 moons of Saturn we have ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of. It has rain, lakes, and oceans ...

NASA's got a new mission on the horizon. Land an unmanned spacecraft on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. And explore the surface for evidence of potential alien life. The billion dollar mission will ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, might have a more violent past than ... where the rim is formed by the ejected material from the crater interior. It's totally a different process," Giuseppe Mitri ...